These awards honor graduates and friends of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering who are shaping tomorrow and supporting our school in noteworthy ways.
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Innovation Fellow Award
The Luddy School’s Innovation Fellow Award honors individuals who help cultivate the next generation of innovators and global leaders and who have demonstrated leadership while making noteworthy contributions to the fields of computer science, informatics, or information and library science. View the videos below of our 2021 recipients, Dorothy Berry (MLS ’16), Sanchari Das (MS ’18, Ph.D. ’20), and Logan D. Selby (MS ’19), and our 2023 recipients, Willie Miller (MLS '10) and Dong Yu (MS '96) who come from a variety of backgrounds and are making a critical impact on their respective fields.
2023 Recipients
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Willie Miller, now Associate Dean for Communication and Technology for IU Indianapolis University Library. Was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Attended Tougaloo College, double majoring in English and Philosophy. After graduating in 2008, he enrolled in the then School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, earning his Master's in Library Science in 2010. He was part of the first cohort of Indiana's Librarian's leading in diversity program, which supported the recruitment and education of talented students from diverse backgrounds pursuing a degree in library and information science. Willie's grad research was in the future of reference services and collection development. He did independent study with former Department of Information and Library Science chair, Ralph Shaw on the library collections of historically Black colleges and universities to determine a baseline of which books were most relevant to those students. Willie was mentored by Lois Holiday, head of the Neil Marshall Black Cultural Center Library. Willie had multiple jobs at IU, including managing the libraries of Wright and Mcnutt residence halls. And then as an assistant manager of the residential programs and services libraries under Sean Wilson, then library public services manager. Willie also was a graduate student senator in the IU student government and was vice president of the Black Graduate Student Association. He wrote a chapter about IU residence hall libraries for the book, The Slow Book Revolution, edited by friend and Gutman community college head librarian Meghan Lacey, beginning his career at IU Indianapolis as the informatics and journalism librarian. Willie developed the I Heart UL campaign, which collected data on how to improve the student library experience. It resulted in the campus administration allocating 1.7 $5,000,000 to renovate two floors to provide better space for students. Willie's commitment to his profession has led to numerous accolades such as Indiana Library Foundation's 2012 Outstanding New Librarian, American Library Association's 2012 Emerging Leader Library Journal's Annual Movers and Shaker's Recognition in 201610, and being named Outstanding young alumnus in 2018 by the United Negro College Fund. He was elected to the IU Indianapolis Faculty Council Executive Committee where he serves as Vice President. Willie is an adjunct faculty member at the Luddy School Indianapolis and works with library and information science students. In 2019, he was named Associate Dean for Communication and Technology for IU Indianapolis University Library, where he oversees the three DVR initiative digitization, digital user experience, client support, and operations teams. Willie is the leader of the library's campus outreach group, which creates library programs aimed at students on the national level. He's a member of the leadership council for the Association College and Research Libraries. Willie helps to lead the drive to improve and innovate the library's teaching, learning, and researching goals. As far as hobbies, Willie helps friends with interior design. He and his husband Joe, who's an engineer, do construction and building projects similar to what's on HGTV. Willie also lead several book clubs. Enjoys reading and discussing books and taking long walks or runs on the Monon Trail or playing with their dog. I've worked with Willie Miller since 2010 and have watched him develop into a thoughtful and innovative leader. Not just at University Library but at I, up I and within the National Library profession. There are so many initiatives that I could speak to that Mr. Miller has spearheaded, but I'll share one that encompasses who he is as a professional and demonstrates his values of being student focused, action oriented, and data informed. In 2011, in his role as lead of the library's campus outreach group, Willie sought a way to find out more about what library visitors appreciated and needed from the library. But he ditched the usual survey and instead came up with a week long interactive face to face event called I Heart Well held the week of Valentine's Day, a table with giveaways was set up in the main thoroughfare of the library. And we asked students what they loved, but also what they wish we did better. The boards were quickly filled with posted notes. Over the years, this information collected has informed changes we've made to our space and services example, adding significantly more outlets throughout our main study space. Students have come to expect and enjoy this week long love or do Better Fest. And the library has gained really rich longitudinal data that has proven immensely useful in reports, grant writing, and donor relations. The first years of heart UL Willie presented at library conferences about the work and engagement assessment activity and this has been replicated in other libraries across the country. Additionally, it was recognized with the annual Power of Libraries Award. Willie exemplifies how librarians are active faculty leaders on a university campus. Right now, Willie serves as the Ip I Academic Affairs faculty fellow and also as the vice president of the Ip I Faculty Council. In these roles, his voice, his librarian view impacts the whole of the campus. An exemplary of this work is Willie's participation in creating I Pi's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Path for promotion and Tenure, Recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as the first university to create such a path. Willie helped craft this important and innovative way that seeks to lift up the historically undervalued contributions of folks who make it their professional calling to focus on I within their careers. Willie not only helped craft the campus level guide, but also the library specific process. I'm so proud of Willie's work and fortunate to have him as a colleague and fellow library leader.Description of the video:
Dong Yu grew up in Hong Sho City, Jiajing Province, China, and attended Jiajing University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, followed by a master's degree in pattern recognition and intelligence control from the university, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Soon after he arrived at Indiana University where he earned his Master's in Computer Science in 1996. During his time at IU Dong pursued his interest in the field of speech processing and recognition through Professor David Leaks Artificial Intelligence course. Dong's time at IU was pivotal in laying the groundwork for his achievements in developing software for automatic speech recognition. After graduation, Dong started working at Microsoft Research and he eventually became the principal researcher of the Speech and Dialogue Group. While at Microsoft, he had two books and more than 300 papers published. He also had 100 granted or pending patents. As a result of his exemplary work, he was honored by his peers as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the International Speech Communication Association. Since 2017, Dong has been distinguished Scientist and Vice General Manager at Ten Cent Ai Lab, where he continues to be a pioneer in deep learning architectures, resulting in more efficient, accurate automatic speech recognition models. Because of his extensive knowledge and experience, Dong is on governmental AI advisory boards and reviews, national grant proposals. Dong stays dedicated to research advancement through his committee, participation on multiple professional membership groups, serving as editor on several professional journals and magazines, and giving talks to audiences globally, including one back in 2018 at Luddy Fest. As far as hobbies, Dong enjoys hiking and reading history books and detective stories. He likes detective stories because like scientific research, careful observation and reasoning is needed to uncover the truth. He is married to Julie Zao, an Iu education school graduate. Hello, my name is Alexa and I work at Album, Leading technologist for Syria on speech, Tcn, speech synthesis, language understanding and dialogue. I've been here at Apple for ten years since 2013. But before then I spent 20 years on Microsoft research and that's where I met Do. I was running the Speech Research Group in Microsoft Research at the time. And I hired Don in the year of 2000 as a software development engineer. My team had mostly researchers that were investigating advances in the speech recognition area. But we needed software development engineers to help us prototype some of the ideas. That's how I hire Dong, started giving him some assignments and I was just impressed that was the fastest coder that I've ever worked with. You give him a task he'll finish in no time. And not just fast, high quality code and efficient. And maybe that's something that he learned here at Indiana University. But after a couple of years after I promoted him, because he was just incredible, he told me that he was interested in doing more research. I gave him some tasks that involves some software development and some research, and he was doing great. The year 2010, 2011, there were seminal papers that change that brought near networks into the mention for speech recognition. Like if you do a search on papers with the term deep neural network. Before 2011 and after you see Anne in the curve. And a great part of this was the work that Don did you hear all of the rave about generative Ai these days? Well, a lot of that started in 2010 and that's part of that due to do. He continued working on the project and even came up with a system that was beating the transcription accuracy that humans do on conversational speech. That's how much it had improved. Then he moved to Tencent in 2017 and he's been leading the Ai research there. He's the Chief Scientist. His work has been recognized in many places. Being Fellow of Tripoli is Can Cm. He has several best paper awards from Tripoli journals and many distinctions. And it's a great pleasure to be able to give this recommendation. I'm so happy that he's winning this award. Thank you very much.Past Recipients
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Dorothy Barry grew up and asked Grove, Missouri, and she received her Bachelor of Arts in music performance from Mills College. Soon after she arrived at IU, where she earned both a Master of Library Science, Master of Arts in folklore, ethnomusicology. In 2016. During her time at IU, Dorothy honed her archival skills through her bobbin in the archives of African-American music and culture, black film set or archive and the Monroe County Historical Society. She treasures her time at IU where she was able to meet lifelong friends and professional colleagues. Since 2018, Dorothy's bend, the digital collections Program Manager at Harvard University's Houghton Library. She has committed to increasing access to archival materials and innovative ways. And she recently oversaw a project to digitize African-American history materials while creating a research collection site where these materials can be accessed. Through this and other initiatives. She's been instrumental in bringing voice to marginalized people who have been silenced and historical archives. She also uses her leadership and knowledge to get back to her community through her work with the Digital Library Federation and Society of American Archivists among others, use a highly regarded speak are presenting on panels, webinars, and conferences. I'm Brendan Nelson Strauss, head of collections at the IU archives of African-American music and culture. On behalf of our current director, Dr. Tai run Cooper, our founding director, DR. porsche, K multipy, and triple AMC staff. I would like to congratulate Dorothy vary on receiving the Luddy School Innovation Fellow Award. Dorothy served as a graduate assistant at the Triple Aim see from 2011 to 2013. And from the very beginning, it was clear that she possessed a depth of knowledge are beyond her years. A unique combination of Wit and Wisdom. Dorothy could converse on any topic from 19th century minstrel C to Contemporary Hip Hop. For thirst for knowledge and dedication to the preservation of African-American music in history contributed greatly to our programming and outreach efforts. During her tenure, Dorothy wrote the script for and narrated the triple AMCs first collection related video documentary, and also co curated multiple exhibits on topics ranging from the black music industry to Indianapolis gospel. You sold review. She displayed a great deal of creativity in these endeavors and the end results were widely praised across the university. It comes as no surprise whatsoever that Dorothy has made substantial contributions in her recent endeavors, employing her unique vision and dedication to advance innovative access and preservation initiatives, as well as her own personal goal to unite stakeholder communities with their often displaced heritages. Bravo to Dorothy Barry.Description of the video:
Logan Diesel be used from Petersburg, Indiana and received his master of science and data science from IU and 2019. Logan has continued his education and is in the process of earning his PhD and information technology with a focus on autonomous systems and robotics. Logan continually proves to be a truth thought leader in the area of data science and computing. He serves as Vice President of Operations at a salon robotics, where he has been instrumental in curating the application of robotic perimeter security. This mechanism utilizes a salons autonomous drone solution paired with ground robotic quadrupeds. Login enjoyed an illustrious career in the United States Army, serving in various capacities and informatics and intelligence around the globe. And he still serves as an active reserve officer, as a subject matter expert in autonomy and robotics. Logan uses every moment to promote the growth and adoption of new computing and machine learning approaches. As he serves a strategic advisor for data shapes, a San Francisco based AI company. His favorite memory from his time at IU is working with so many talented professionals from all walks of life. My name's David why? I first engaged with Logan salivate when he joined the Data Science program in 2017. But I didn't really work with them until this last semester in 2019. Way we met to discuss possibility of loading, carrying out an independent study research project with me. Now immediately realized that Logan was SNIC many talents. Bringing your thoughts and discipline from this military experience together with understanding of the commercial world and rapidly-growing technical understanding of data science hopefully helps by what you exploding from our program. So login and complete an extremely insightful and thoughtful paper with me call data science, the Intelligence Cycle, which proposed a new framework for the intelligence community driven by capabilities of the science. And what was really doing was taking a very established feel. They're showing how it could be effectively evolved to best use the tools of science. And this is what struck me rarely most of all, our local police ability to very efficiently and effectively understand how data science and informatics can be used in complex real-world scenarios to help people. Now some people have really strong technical knowledge but lack the understanding about the case with human complex, there's in some people it the other way where a login is rarely operate, she could bring these different worlds of technology and the important areas of society to countless foot will impact. So congratulations Logan on the Luddy Innovation Fellow Award. It's extremely well deserves.Description of the video:
Dr. Shots, every dash is from Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and currently resides in Denver. She attended the Luddy School where she received her master's in informatics in 2018 and her PhD in informatics two years later. Throughout our academic and professional career, she has proven herself to be arising leader and innovator in the fields of informatics in computer science, particularly when it comes to privacy and security. She has received several grants to further her research, including one from Facebook to work on augmented and virtual reality authentication, From the University of Denver to work on the privacy perceptions of online education for students with learning disabilities. And from Cisco to explore healthcare privacy and security. Her work has been published in several top to your academic venues and she is also presented at several security conferences. Szasz Arif boundary remembers the supportive faculty, staff and friends she met at IU. Her fondest memory is what her advisor, Dr. Jean Camp Hood at her for her PhD graduation at the stadium while family and friends watched. My name is Christina. I'm a Professor of Informatics here at IU. And I'm just delighted that Dr. Centauri Das has been named the 2020 one Luddy Innovation Fellow. Centauri is truly one of the most fearless, can do. Help full and cheerful people I have ever met. I've known him for six years now. She's started out as a standout student in my privacy seminar and soon became a coauthor for artwork on fishing. Next, I've watched her decide which fraction of her published work on user authentication be included in her dissertation. Now I think of Centauri as just a remarkable up and coming young colleague and my friend. One thing that hasn't changed and all this time is what am incredibly curious and generous person Centauri is. From the start. She's not only wanted to get to know and learn from everyone around her, but to also support all of us, whatever our interests might be. Centauri is a gifted, incredibly productive researcher, but she's also someone who puts herself in constant service to others. It's not easy and it's not required, but it is important to her. And so Centauri does it. I think it's one reason her work is so remarkable. Centauri understands both the social and technical constraints on computing security. People adopt her solutions. Because these solutions fundamentally help people achieve their goals and help secure our computing infrastructure. We are so very lucky that now, as an alum, Centauri continues to put all of her accomplishments to work on behalf of the Luddy school. I can't imagine a better ambassador. What an honor it has been to get to know you, Centauri. I am so happy for you. And for us. Congratulations.Distinguished Alumni Award
The Luddy Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes outstanding contributions to computer science, informatics, and engineering over the course of a career or through philanthropy or volunteering. View the following videos to find out more about our recent recipients, Christian Beck (BS ’05, MS ’07) and Ian Rogers (BA ’94), Chris Cason (BS '88), and Torsten Hoefler (PhD '08).
2023 Recipients
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Torsten Heffler, now a full professor of computer science at Eth Zurich, was born in Magdeburg, Germany and spent his early life in the German town of Kemnutz. He graduated from Kemnutz University of Technology at the top of his class with a Masters in Computer science. In 2004, he enrolled and I use computer science program as a doctoral student. In 2005, Torsten graduated in 2008 with a Phd in Computer Science. He worked closely Andrew Lumsden, then the Associate Dean for Research in the School of Informatics and Computing, and Director for the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies. Former U Professor Jeffrey Fox, a renowned theoretical physicist and computer scientist, was a role model at Iu. Torsten helped to shape the message passing interface specification, the Defacto standard for programming distributed memory clusters and supercomputers. While completing his postdoctoral work at the Open System Lab at Iu, Pervasive Technology Institute, Torsten developed foundation that has led him to becoming one of the world's leading high performance computing research scientists. After college, Torsten joined the faculty at the University of Illinois or Bana Champaign. He worked in the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters Directorate at the National Center for Supercomputing, which gave scientists access to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers for research ranging from climate change to the evolution of the cosmos. Torsten is currently a full professor of computer science at ETH Zurich, one of Europe's leading research institutions where he directs the Scalable Parallel computing laboratory. Thurston's research has produced numerous best paper awards at leading conferences, including six at supercomputing. The top conference of HPC. In 2019, a team of Eth Zurich researchers led by Torsten won the prestigious Association for computing Machineries, Gordon Bell Prize, also known as the Nobel Prize of Supercomputing. His team's research centered on a code for stimulating electron transport nanoscale materials. Torsten was named the 2022 Acm Fellow, which recognizes the top 1% of members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and earned the I Sydney Fern Bach Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of high performance computing. Torsten is the only person to be elected to the executive committee for Acm's Special Interest Group on human performance computing. He's been the editor for multiple professional journals and the keynote speaker at top conferences. Teams that he's advised in the Ac MIEE cluster competitions have taken the top prize three times, including one from IU. In 2008, Torsten has helped multiple students publish first author papers and win student research competitions. As for hobbies, Torsten enjoys running and hiking. Thank you everyone for being here today to celebrate the achievements of alumni from the Lady School at Indiana University. Congratulations to everyone who's being recognized today. I'm Andrew Lumsden and I had the privilege of being Tors Hafer, Phd advisor. This isn't the first time that Torsten has been recognized by the school. In 2014, he was named as the Outstanding Young Alumni for my nomination letter. At that time, I wrote that Torss achievements would exceed my own, such as they were. In fact, even before 2014, I knew that Torsten would have a stellar career. Let me explain what I think it is that makes Torsten so special. Of course, he's intellectual lifted. He's very bright, but there's many bright people in our field, maybe not all of them as bright as Torsten, but Torsten towers over all of us. I've never seen anyone who can throw themselves so enthusiastically at tackling problems at paying the price, at taking the journey towards achievement. And Tors has achieved many things. I only have a few minutes. I was asked to limit my remarks and so I can really only name a few highlights. Maybe the most impressive thing that Tors has accomplished to this point is that he was recently named a fellow of the Tripoli Computer Society and a fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery. Those two organizations are technical societies which encompass all of computer signs, not just high performance computing, and a very small fraction of members of those societies become fellows. Usually one is elected to fellow when one is at the end of a career and can retrospectively look back at a large body of work. Thorsten doesn't just reserve his enthusiasm for research accomplishments, he's an outstanding mentor, outstanding teacher, he's one teaching awards and his students also regularly receive best paper awards at some of the most selective and best conferences in our field. I'm happy now to call Torsten, not just a colleague and appear better friend. I want to emphasize again that many of the things that Torsten has received, the best paper awards, the institutional awards, the election to fellow for the ACM and I Tripoli. These are achievements that would be remarkable for someone over the entirety of their career. But in academic timescale, Torsten is just getting started. Torsten, congratulations on this award as Outstanding Alumni at the Luddy School. As I said, it's no surprise to me, it's been an absolute pleasure and privilege to have been your Phd advisor. And I can't even begin to describe how much pride I have in watching you in your pursuit of knowledge, in the enthusiasm with which you pursue it. And those have been an inspiration to all of us, like you in 2008, I still know smog that you will continue to contribute to lead the field of high performance computing. In fact, I expect you'll continue to revolutionize it and that you do that for years to come. Thank you for letting me be part of your journey.Description of the video:
Chris Son, now managing director of Accenture, was born in South Bend and came to Indiana University in 1984 to study computer science. His high school sweetheart and future wife, Karen Lizzy, also attended IU. His favorite class and professor were C, 311 Programming Languages with Daniel Friedman. He says he still dreams in parenthesis because of scheme a programming language. Chris has a lot of great memories including an all Nier from the basement computer lab at Lindley Hall, the side of the computer science department. Before Luddy Hall was built, his information system senior project was writing an inventory system for Kilroy's. As it turned out, much of his career was involved in systems automation for inventory. Beyond academics, Chris enjoyed intramural sports, flag football, basketball, soccer and softball. Exploring local quarries, and fishing at Lake Monroe. Remains a big Hoosier sports fan. He attended every home football game even during the 0.11 season of 1984. A big highlight was I use 1987 National Basketball Championship. He graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in computer science, along with minors in business and math. He started at Rome Corporation, a technology company in Santa Clara, California, where he developed software for voice telephony applications. Years later, he moved to South Bend to be closer to family. He was hired by the Summit Group as a consultant and eventually became Chief Operating Officer. He eventually left to establish Blue Horseshoe, a consulting company that focuses on supply chain transformation in Carmel, Indiana. As CEO and President, he helped Blue Horseshoe grow into an international consulting firm with about 350 employees and offices Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina, and Europe. In 2004, Blue Horseshoe partnered with Microsoft. Several of its products were integrated into Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Blue Horseshoe was named Microsoft Dynamics Distribution Industry Partner of the Year. In 2012, Blue Horseshoe was acquired by Accenture in 2021, and Chris became the Managing Director. His expertise in growth led supply chains fuels Accenture vision for resilient and responsible fulfillment and distribution centers for clients. Chris remains a major Luddy school supporter, including ten years on the Dean's Advisory Council. He assisted in the 2021 22 Deans search committee that resulted in the hiring of Dean, Joanna Lunch. His company hires luddy graduates in 2019. He was the luddy graduation speaker. Chris and Karen live in Carmel. Their children, Molly, Ryan, and Carle are all IU graduates. Hello, I'm John, Foster, longtime business partner, colleague to Chris. Son. Absolute pleasure to congratulate Chris on receiving the Lady Distinguished Alumni Award. Chris and I've known each other for what feels like a lifetime. It's actually been over 32 years. First as colleagues with a company called the Summit Group, then as business partners. When we started Blue Horseshoe together, when we first met all those years ago, I was a green bean fresh out of college, wide eyed and ready to take on the world. Chris was quite a bit older than me at that point and provided me with a Northstar for which to set my professional compass by, he said, an example for what it meant to be successful and operate with a high degree of integrity. When the opportunity arose to start Blue Horseshoe, there was no one better than Chris to partner with. Starting a company is a journey that is very challenging, but can also be extremely rewarding. For that reason you want to do with people you trust unconditionally and respect as individual and business people. If you're really fortunate, this business partnership will blossom into a lifelong friendship. This is one of the things that I'm most proud of and grateful for during our blue horse journey is during the hard times that the true measure of a person's character is revealed. Christo holds the highest degree of trustness and honesty, and this is one of the reasons we also voted him as our CEO. When you start a company with someone you're working long hours traveling around the world, fighting fires and celebrating the winds. You want someone beside you in the trenches who will always have your back. Someone will stand up with you when the times are tough, but also someone you want to celebrate the victories with. This was always the one first to recognize and acknowledge the efforts of every single person who contributed to our success. He knew the power of unity and the strength of what comes from recognizing and appreciating each individual's unique contributions. As we began to achieve success and growth, as an organization began to experience some challenges. Not only do you need to remain focused on the work, but you also have to need be the intentional about the culture of your organization is the secret source that would differentiate you from the competition and propel you as a company to the next level. Culture is not something you can oppose within a growing company. Is something you need to be constantly cultivating, nurturing, and will begin to thrive on its own and become the foundation in the fabric of your organization. Chris was a driving force behind our culture. The manner in which he led by example, communicated, freely shared openly, and his emotional intelligence all directly contributed to the strong culture, a blue horseshoe, and ultimately led to our success. Chris, I want to thank you for sharing the journey with me through the years. As you've traveled a long road of business, I very much appreciate the opportunity to fight side by side with you and for the camaraderie and friendship that will last a lifetime. Congratulations on receiving this reward. You deserve the recognition and so much more. Thank you for being an inspiration to all of us and a positive example for all of us to follow. And thank you for reminding us that the success is not about the numbers, but about the relationships we build along the way. Here's to you your continued success.Past Recipients
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Growing up in the small town of Goshen, Indiana, Ian Rogers was poor, focused on skateboarding and music bin school in his future. By the age of 17, he was buried with a child and struggling to make ends meet as a radio announcer, realizing how expensive it is to raise a child and started thinking more seriously about his future after a year of community college. And in his young family moved to IU Bloomington where he enrolled as an education major. Soon switched to computer science, a subject he had excelled in probably young age, and started a work-study project that I use music library to make it easier for students to access. I used Music Archive. And through this project and learn how to build websites are rare and emerging skill in the early nineties. Use this knowledge and his passion for music to build and maintain an unofficial homepage for his favorite band, the Beastie Boys. While still at IU and received a call from the Beastie Boys manager who ask him to take over their official site. He jumped at the opportunity, and this endeavor would lead to and touring with the band while also starting a business, building websites for other well-known musicians. And he did it all while raising his daughter. For bear, his career in digital music took off. He's bent, General Manager of Yahoo music, CEO of Topspin, media, CEO of Beats Music at Senior Director of Apple Music, bottling more than 20 years in the music industry. And then took an unexpected detour to the luxury fashion conglomerate, LVMH. As Chief Digital Officer, he is now chief experience officer at ledger, which is a Paris based blockchain startup. Throughout his illustrious career, E and has been a pioneer in making music more accessible through the use of technology. Back when the public Internet was very young. And some of us were in, some of us were not. And there was only one browser mosaic. A small band of workers was formed in the Iowa School of Music to develop and to deploy a digital library upon the opening of the new and music library under development and eventually construction. It was called the variations project. It was intended to cover all types of materials found in the music library. The time was the early and middle 990s. The small band consisted of three undergraduate computer science students. He was one of the CF students. You must have been in his early 20s. While variations had a plan for all types of music materials, digital audio was far and away the most important item during this time period. And apart in spent the most time with you and had a special attachment to this project as a recorded sound project in part, I think because it was own interests, even understood, rescue others did that the business of sound recording town was about to be disrupted by digital audio. And the most severe way that disruption would include the ability for creators and performers of music who also would be the distributors have their own music and performances. We now know that has already happened. If you look at Iran's ideas, prayer after variations, you see a clear preference for edgy music projects, but Yahoo music, apple, and beats. It's only recently that has become more involved with high fashion branding and with cryptocurrencies. That trend tells us something about E and E is an innovator. The variations project when she retired about five years ago after 20 years of service, I think we can all be proud of that was a big part of that. If I'm proud to have known Ian, I'm proud of his career sense variations, and I admire his ability to live on the edge. Great job inDescription of the video:
Christian back grew up in Indianapolis and began his journey at IU when 2 thousand unfortunately, he got off to a rough start, finding himself on academic probation following his sophomore year. He credits his mother who was attending IU Indianapolis at the time for encouraging him to look into the informatics program after enrolling in our AI one-on-one course, he found his passion. Crested remembers his time at IU. Finally, I want to one grabbed his attention for technology, but it was morning seagulls, HCI design intro class, that's passion for design. Christian earn bachelors degrees and informatics, angiography, and what onto received his MS in human computer interaction in 2007. That same year he got married and moved to San Francisco for his first design job. In 2012, he moved back to Indianapolis with his wife and son to begin his career as senior UX designer at Teradata. A year later, his family expanded with the birth of his daughter. In 2014, Christian co-founded innovate map, a digital product agency that helps companies of all sizes design and deliver digital products and services to market. The Indianapolis business landscape continues to prove from his leadership of fact, it was recently acknowledged by the Indiana Business Journal who named nim is one of the 2021 40 under 40. Christian is passionate about public education, building community, and elevating underserved minority founders, particularly in the Indianapolis community and the Midwest. As an IU retired professor and informatics, that gives me great pleasure to have nominated Christian back for the Luddy Distinguished Alumni Award. I first met Kristen in 2003 when he was an undergraduate student majoring in geography and informatics. And he took fly by 300 class the introduction to Human Computer Interaction Design. And even then, I recognize him to be a bright student who wanted to grass understanding of the field. From that experience, I encouraged him to apply to the master's program and in 2005 he enter the Masters Program and HCI design and distinguished himself again as an outstanding student that collaborated with others in the, in the cohort. He did wonderful work and it was not surprising that when he graduated, he was recruited by Autodesk and San Francisco. But some years later he decided to return to Indiana, to Indianapolis, his hometown and, and start giving back. He's a prime example of paying it forward in extraordinary ways. He became involved with the IU program at the undergraduate and graduate level. Giving the students a very challenging design problems and critiquing them. He would invite students to come to innovate map of the companies that he and Mike Reynolds founded in. And he would give them very direct feedback, sometimes harsh, sometimes very encouraging feedback and recruited some of the best students to the company and to other companies within the Indianapolis area. I think what is so extraordinary about Christian is that he's not only someone who has become a distinguished design thinker, but is a real leader in the Indianapolis immunity. He's been involved with business growth strategies through and if they map. But more importantly, I think he has become an agent for values driven community equity and stains. And and I think this represents some of the highest values of the NYU grad to it. So in all so many ways, I'm just delighted that he has won this award. Congratulations.Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumni Award
Our oldest award honors a Luddy Information and Library Science alum for their outstanding contributions to the library/information science profession. View the accomplishments of our 2023 recipient Jake Nadal (MLS '01) and about the efforts of our 2021 recipient Patricia Steele (MLS ’81) to push the boundaries of her field by watching our video.
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Jake Dhl, now Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress, was born in Portland, Oregon, but he grew up in the state of Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree in music composition and history at the University of Puget Sound. After a brief stint as a library assistant in a small public library in Battleground Washington, Jake enrolled at is prestigious School of Library and Information Science. While pursuing his Master's of Library Science degree, developed an interest in preservation and collection management. He also continued studying music at the Jacobs School, focused on 20th Century American composers and choreographers. Lily, Library Conservator, Jim Canary, and the late Gary Harrison, the former head of the General Conservation Unit at Is E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab, were major influences where Ellen Jacob America's Associate Professor of Information and Library Sciences, Verlin Stone, the former head of the Iu, Liberian collections, and Ruth Stone, Professor Emerita Ethnomusicology, Graduating in 2001. Jake became the inaugural head of the E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory, which provides a full range of conservation services for all Indiana University Bloomington libraries collections. Jake's dedication to digital preservation collection, wide preservation strategies and disaster recovery efforts has taken him across the country and around the world. He's led preservation efforts at UCLA and the New York Public Library. Was the director of Library Archives at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Served as Executive Director of the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium. Jake was integral to projects in 2,005.20 13 to salvage Liberian documents and establish the development of records management and historical archive practice. After two civil wars, his work led to an exhibition in Liberia featuring the country's recently recovered 18, 47 Declaration of Independence and Constitution, The first time these documents had been on public view in Generations. In 2017, Jake was appointed Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress. He oversees a team of 200 with a budget of $30,000,000 He provides leadership for the library's stewardship of the national collections across all of its divisions to ensure that they're maintained and available for present and future generations. Jake serves on the Interagency Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee, which convenes military law enforcement, diplomatic and cultural agencies to guide US policy and preservation efforts, cultural property worldwide, especially during armed conflict or natural disaster. Jacobs taught classes in preservation at IU and the Pratt Institute in New York. He developed the American Library Association's definitions of digital preservation and his contributions to the professional literature are instrumental in shaping large scale preservation strategies. Jake's involvement with IU remains strong. He was a member of the School of Library and Information Sciences Alumni Board for seven years, including two as president. He's a member of the Luddy Schools Dean's Advisory Council. Jake List, Performing arts is a hobby, along with biking and visiting parks, botanical gardens, and museums. He's a big IU basketball fan. Hello, Indiana and greetings from the West Coast. I am Brian Shotlanderu, class of 80, and member of Dean Lance's Luddy School Advisory Council. I'm pleased to be with you today to talk with you about my friend and colleague, Jake Nadal, whom I'm delighted to have nominated for the IULS Distinguished Alumni Award. I've known Jake since the 2000 when I worked as University Librarian at Uc San Diego. When in 2008, news of Jakes coming to the University of California hit the West Coast, the entire university system sat up and took notice. But I, as a graduate of I Us. Library school and as a former librarian at Indiana University. Was particularly pleased because I knew what anyone coming from a similar background would bring to the University of California, where we had already heard about Jake's accomplishments as the founding director of the Craig Preservation Lab at IU. For the next several years, Jake and I worked together on various California initiatives. Including the Western Regional Storage Trust and the University of California Mass Digitization Working Group. Which had so much to do with the ultimate success of the Google Books project. As Jake progressed through his career, including stints at Princeton University where he was the executive director of the recap facility, and now as director of the Division of Preservation at the Library of Congress. One of the things that has really impressed me about him is how much he has continued to give back to the profession while pursuing these very challenging positions. He served as chair of the Los Angeles Preservation Network, and then as a member of the steering committee of the California Preservation Program before taking on the chairship of the preservation and reformatting section of the American Library Association. And while providing this service to the professional community, has continued to publish as well sharing his expertise and knowledge through the professional literature. Including the Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations, College and Research Libraries, and the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. In addition to these considerable contributions to the profession, I have really come to appreciate Jake as a whole individual. Which is to say that besides these many professional pursuits, Jake enjoys a number of personal interests as well, some of which I am happy to share. In particular two. He and I are both fond of classical music and of a fine bourbon. As someone who's married to a gal from Kentucky, I was not prepared to admit that Indiana had anything to offer the Bourbon community until Jake introduced me to bullet Southern Indiana's contribution to Bourbon. A very fine contribution indeed, brought to my attention a very fine individual. Indeed. My only regret today is that I'm unable to be with you all in person to share in and congratulate Jake on his receipt of the ILS Distinguished Alumni Award. I say this because I can think of no one more deserving nor anyone who better embodies all that Indiana University has to offer. Jake. Congratulations. Thank you. A richly deserved award.Description of the video:
After patent her husband Charles completed their degrees at IU. They moved to Michigan, allowing Charles to attend MSU to study landscape architecture. Sued after their daughter Kelly was born. Like any young family, they faced difficulties while raising a child with Charles and school at 1 pat and Charles worked five jobs between them following seven years at Michigan and the addition of a son, Ryan, the family moved to blow big tip, which is where pad and Charles decided to call home. Pat soon started in the IU Libraries as a support staff ID reserves. The family thrived. Pat held a variety of positions in the libraries, eventually being named Dean of Libraries. Charles had his own landscape architecture practice underpants leadership. Iu was the first library to participate in the scanning of content for the Google digitization project, which aimed to digitize 10 million volumes across all Bth a libraries. In 2008, she was a co-founder of Hathi Trust, a shared digital repository for libraries across more than 130 member institutions, which now features more than 17 million digitized items. After retiring as Dean of Libraries, Pat was recruited by the University of Maryland to serve as Dean what she did for six years. Pat's fondest memories over time, but I you are dating and marrying Charles after their sophomore year and of course, overcoming all the challenges that came with putting themselves through college. She also cherishes her five years working in the biology library and being a student of David Smith, English and American Studies professor who had great influence on her life. I nominated Pat still for the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2020 because I thought it was a fitting tribute too long and distinguished career in libraries, patent and I go way back. We actually worked together in the chemistry library. And I watched her career progress to increasingly responsible positions over the course of many years. Ultimately, she reached the Dean of Libraries and iodine. So she was in charge of the entire library system at a time when the University of Maryland went looking for a dean. They didn't take them long to realize what we already knew here at IU that Pat Steele knows how to get a job done and do it right. So they came calling and invited path for an interview and she ultimately got the job. We were sorry to see Pat Lee Bloomington for a number of reasons. Partly because we're personal friends with Pat, but also because we lost a very good library and there was our delight them when we heard that she had retired from Maryland and was coming back to Bloomington. But in general, they reason I nominated tat was because of a an awareness of what a good library and she is and what she has done for the library profession. A lot of that has to do with her outlook on libraries, that they're not just a repository of books and journals, although those are quite important. But that we have a lot of responsibility too. Offer services and offer ways of supporting teaching and learning and research that are digitally based, but also based in print. So it's kind of a balancing act as a librarian to do that. And I think Pat has done an extremely good job of, of maintaining that balance between her efforts in the digital world, an imprint, paths, an avid reader. She reads very many books and she remembers them. So unlike myself and to do. But I think that the digitalization efforts that Pat was involved in by themselves would have made her a strong candidate for the Distinguished Alumni Award. And I'm satisfied that we have a person who is fully deserving of it. So I congratulate Pat on this award. Thank you very much for your service and your friendship.2023 - Jake Nadal, MLS’01
2021 - Patricia Steele, MLS ‘81
2019 - Carole Medal, MLS’79
2018 - Helen Tibbo, MLS’83
2017 - James L. Mullins, PhD’84
2016 - Carla J. Funk, MLS’73
2015 - Brian Schottlaender, MLS’80
2014 - Mary Popp, BS’71, MLS’73, MS’81,
2014 - Blanche Woolls, MLS’62, PhD’73
2012 - Kathleen “Kathy” Crimans, BA’73, MLS’74
2010 - Thomas G. Kirk Jr., MS’69
2008 - Keith Kuhn (posthumous), BA’74, MLS’76
2007 - Merri Beth Lavagnino, MLS’89
2006 - James Fish, MLS’71
2005 - Bradley L. Schaffner, MA’84, MLS’89
2004 - William J. Crowe, PhD’86
2001 - Garry D. Wiggins, BA’66, MA’68, MLS’71, PhD’85
2000 - Larry L. Hardesty, MS’78, PhD’82
1999 - Lester J. Pourciau Jr., PhD’75
1998 - Douglas K. Lehman, MLS’78
1997 - Sondra Bandy Koontz, MLS’71
1996 - David A. Bucove, MLS’67
1996 - Richard P. Smiraglia, MLS’74
1995 - John V. Richardson Jr., PhD’78
1994 - Margaret C. Fung, PhD’83
1993 - D. Peter Hernon, PhD’78
1992 - David V. Loertscher, PhD’73
1991 - Betty C. Martin, BS’55, MLS’83
1990 - Marian L. Armstrong, BS’52, MS’58
1989 - Barbara Fischler, MM’54, MS’64
1988 - Debora Shaw, PhD’83
1987 - Benjamin F. Speller Jr., MA’65, PhD’73
1986 - Bernard M. Fry, BA’37, MA’39
1984 - Joyce Ball, MS’59
1983 - Fred Williams Hanes, MS’53
1982 - Charles H. Davis, BS’60, MS’66, PhD’69
1981 - Edward N. Howard, BA’65, MS’68
1979 - Margaret Regina Sheviak, BA’57, MS’58
1978 - William Joseph Studer, BA’58, MLS’60, PhD’68
1977 - Rebecca Taylor Bingham, BS’50, MLS’69
Dean's Award
This award is given at the dean’s discretion for exceptional philanthropic leadership and service to the school.
Past Recipients
2014
Julie A. Meek, Ph.D.'93
Dennis "Denny" Sponsel
Legacy Awards
Career Achievement Award:
2015 - Jennifer Widom, BS’82, MS’83
2014 - Pete Beckman, PhD’93
2013 - Gary McGraw, MS’90, PhD’95
2012 - Gloria Childress Townsend, BA’69, MS’87
2011 - Scott Jones, BS’84, Hon. DS’02
2010 - Don Brown, BS’78, MS’82, MD’85
2009 - Anand Deshpande, MS’86, PhD’89, Cheng Wu, MS’77
Young Alumni Award:
2015 - Judy Wawira Gichoya (MS’12), Sriram Mohan (MS’03, PhD’07)
2014 - Torsten Hoefler (PhD’08), Sandosh Vasudevan (MS’08)
2013 - Russell Conard (BS’12), Leon Nowlin Jr. (BS’08)
2012 - Josh Esslinger (BS’03), Jordan E. Martz (BS’06)
2011 - Brad Gessler (BS’04), Steve Hodges (BS’04)
2010 - Kay Connelly, BS’95, Virginia G. Richardson (BS’07)
2009 - Jennette Fulda (BS’03)
Distinguished Service Award:
2015 - H. Patrick Callahan (BA’69), Mary W. Delaney, (BS’86)
2014 - Matthew Ferguson, Debora “Ralf” Shaw (PhD’83)
2013 - Andy Hanson, Carol Lewis (BS’53)
2012 - Barbara M. Hayes (BA’76, MSW’81, MS’01), George Springer
2011 - Mary McKenzie (MS’73)
2010 - Don Aquilano, Janatha R. Ashton (BS’65, MS’78)
2009 - Mark Hill, Ed Robertson